Kurzfilmprogramm & Artist-Talk: In Her Shoes

In the organizer's words:

Short film program and artist talk, moderated by Silke Schönfeld and Florian Wüst

In Her Shoes invites a change of perspective. The boundaries between private and political spaces become blurred in the four short films, which demand our emotional involvement as viewers precisely because of their autobiographical references. The filmmakers use their very own visual languages to immerse us in experiences and memories in which the dark light of patriarchal conditions is refracted: the story of grandparents that began with rape, the invisibility of the topic of abortion in the social image of women, the dehumanizing effect of xenophobia, the responsibility for care work as a result of one's own mother's Alzheimer's disease. How would it feel to be in all these shoes?

Curated by Silke Schönfeld and Florian Wüst

Followed by an audience discussion with Katrin Esser, Franzis Kabisch, Cana Bilir-Meier and Silke Schönfeld, moderated by Florian Wüst.

About the films:

Margit, Alex Gerbaulet, DE 2002, 21:00

"The first time I enter the house where my grandmother last lived and where she burned to death just a few months after my mother's death, I take a camera with me. I hold the lens in front of my eye like a shield and feel my way through sooty rooms and fragmented memories." Supplemented by family photos and newspaper clippings, Alex Gerbaulet reveals a German post-war story of repression, suppression and domestic violence in Margit.

getty abortions, Franzis Kabisch, DE 2023, 22:00

What images do we associate with abortion and why? Where do these images and the emotional scripts in our heads come from? How do they influence women who (want to) have an abortion, how do they shape the social debate? Franzis Kabisch examines these questions with clarity and humor in her personal desktop documentary getty abortions. In doing so, she scrutinizes the evidential value of filmic and photographic "testimonies", which need not only be questioned in times of stock photos, editing software and artificial intelligence.

Semra Ertan, Cana Bilir-Meier, DE/AT 2013, 07:30

Semra Ertan, born in Turkey in 1956, moved to Germany in 1972 to join her parents. She worked as a technical draughtswoman and interpreter and wrote over 350 poems. The title of one of her poems is "My name is foreigner". Ten years later, she set herself on fire in the middle of a Hamburg street as a sign against xenophobia and racism - triggering a long overdue public debate. "Cana Bilir-Meier assembles a cinematic remembrance of her aunt from Semra Ertan's poems and fragments of historical television reports." (Betty Schiel)

Proxys - Part 1, Katrin Esser, DE 2023, 11:00

Katrin Esser's Proxys - Part 1 is the first of three chapters of an experimental documentary that tells the story of the course of the illness, care and death of the artist's mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. "The film explores the possibilities of making stories legible for oneself and others in their subjectivity and density of information, combining the narrative perspectives of the Polish caregiver Violetta, who lived with the family for several months, and the artist. The only location is the apartment, which alternates between living space, museum and crime scene and which is examined for traces of the events." (Clara Hofmann)

The short film program In Her Shoes will take place as part of the Kleiner Freitag event series in the HMKV premises on level 3, where the exhibition Silke Schönfeld: You Can't Make This Up will be shown from 11 October 2024 to 2 February 2025.